An International Design Competition
No boundaries means total freedom
Create a design that changes people’s ideas what a store can be.

The WORLD Space Creators Awards ask design professionals and students to envision a new concept in shop style, a venue conceived to promote “customer-to-shop interaction”.
Winning designers to be commissioned to be part of a team to use their winning design in a project for real retail space development.

The WORLD Space Creators Awards are given through an open competition that aims not only to discover talented designers from around the world but also to realize their ideas by actually developing winning entries into an actual interior. Entrants can submit nearly any kind of concept that helps to define a shop interior, from overall interior design concept to various shop tools including window or interior displays, mannequins, logos and signs. With the only assumption that submissions will be physically possible to create, we hope participants will allow their imaginations to run freely in creating an idea for their submission.

CONTENT OF ENTRIES

  * Submissions should be based on the premise that they can be used for executing development of a shop for one of WORLD’s brands.
  * Submissions are considered on the basis of contributing to development of interior design, shop display, communication tools, etc.
  * Entrants are free to specify the shop’s name or not.
  * WSCA is looking for original ideas that are unbounded by conventional thinking.

ENTRY SPACIFICATIONS

  1. Interior design award
    Floor space should be no greater than 170m2; there are no restrictions on shape or height
  2. Visual design award
    Window display, mannequin, fixtures, art, logo, new means of expressing ideas through signage and other communication tools; modeling and such points are unrestricted

JUDGES

Naoto Fukasawa, designer and WSCA jury president
Takeshi Nakasa, photographer (Nácasa & Partners)
Atsushi Nakamichi, photographer (Nácasa & Partners)
Yoichi Nakamuta, design editor (E&Y Co., Ltd.)
Yasuo Kondo (interior designer)
Visual Merchandising Division, WORLD Co., Ltd.

AWARDS

  * Professional Competition:
    Interior Design Award - open number of winners
    Visual Design Award- open number of winners
    As part of their award, winners will be invited to be part of new project development for WORLD in 2008.
      o Commissioned projects may differ slightly from the winning proposals, or winning proposals may be only partially adopted, depending on outline of new projects.
      o The form, terms and timing of project contracts will be determined subject to discussion between WORLD Co., Ltd. and winner(s).
  * Student Competition:
      o 1st Prize: Interior/Visual Display (combined)
        - 1 winner ¥200,000
      o Honorable Mention
        - open number of winners ¥50,000

ELIGIBILITY

  * This competition is open to professional as well as non-professional entrants of all nationalities and ages.
  * Entries may also be made by groups or companies, in which case an individual from that group or company should be named as the entrant.

SUBMITTING WORKS

  * Each submission should be outlined in no more than 4 files.
  * Although there are no presentation style guidelines for the submitted work, proposals should be presented in such a manner that facilitates visualization of your idea.
  * Entry data should be in the following formats:
      o Acceptable file formats: JPEG and PDF
      o File names: file names can be freely determined by the entrant;
        file extensions (‘.jpg’ or ‘.pdf’) must be used
        *File names should use standard Roman characters
      o Amount of data: 1 entry (up to 4 files) should not be more than 8MB in total

ENTRY PROCEDURE

  * Entries can only be submitted via the WORLD Space Creators Awards 2008 official website (http://wsca.world.co.jp).
  * Entry forms will be available on the website starting from 10 January 2008.
  * To make your entry, please fill out the necessary information on the entry form and upload your entry’s data.
  * Any written document to explain the content of an entry should be in either English or Japanese and no longer than 400 words in English or 800 characters in Japanese.
  * Multiple entries can be submitted by the same group or individual.

JUDGING PROCEDURE

  * First round: to be conducted by the WORLD Co. Visual Merchandising Division
  * Final round: to be conducted by WSCA judges

RESULTS

  * Winners will be notified in writing by the middle of March 2008.
  * Winning entries will be announced on the WORLD website at the beginning of April.
  * Responses will not be made to any queries regarding judging or results.

RECEIPT OF ENTRIES

Opening: Thursday, January 10, 2008
Closing: Thursday, January 31, 2008
*Entries must be received by the close of business in Japan on 31 January 2008.

PLEASE NOTE

  * Submitted works must be the entrant’s own original work in order to be considered.
  * Please refrain from submitting entries in other competitions or presentations.
  * Concerning works which risk infringement on any copyrights, rights to likeness, trademark rights, design rights or any other rights held by a third party, the entrant is responsible for obtaining any necessary permissions and stating any such clearance upon submission of the entry.
  * As a rule, please refrain from using copyrighted images reproduced from sources such as magazines, books or websites.
  * Should any third party initiate claims of infringement of rights or should any other dispute arise, the entrant will be held responsible for dealing with such action or dispute and shall bear any costs incurred, including any damages incurred by the competition organizer.

ENTRIES

  * Entries will not be returned. If necessary, entrants should make and retain copies.
  * Intellectual property rights of winning entries reside with the entrant, but the organizer retains the right to announce winning entries. Further, the competition organizer retains priority rights for registration of exclusive use rights when intellectual property rights such as copyrights and design rights are held by the entrant.
  * While submissions’ copyrights entry reside with the entrant, the competition organizer retains the right to print, publish, include in websites, display or otherwise announce any work entered for WORLD Space Creators Awards publicity purposes. The organizer will inform the entrant with details upon any such publicity use.

http://wsca.world.co.jp/